Image credit: Anggun Priambodo, Mendarat (video still), 2011
Asialink Arts, Bus Projects (Melbourne) and Ruang MES 56 (Indonesia) presents Put Up a Signal, a multifaceted artist exchange featuring Indonesian and Australian screen based art.
Exploiting the fact that video and sound files can now be shared across the world at low cost, the project explores opportunities for richer collaboration and exchange made possible through the Internet and digital platforms. Showcasing the developments taking place in both communities, the project uses an evolving, decentralised model of collaboration between artists and organisations.
The forum will bring together a selection of artists, curators and academics to discuss how developments in technology have shaped current artistic practice, and what digital platforms can offer in terms of intercultural communication and exchange.
Panel discussion:
Agung Nugroho Widhi, Runag MES 56 (Indonesia); Edwin Jurriens, Melbourne University; Channon Goodwin, Bus Projects; Jessica O’Brien, Asialink Arts; Nella Themelios (RMIT)
Artist presentations:
Eugenia Lim (AU), Rowan McNaught (AU), Tristan Jalleh (AU), video letters from a selection of the Put Up a Signal participants.
Where: New Low
Basement 746 Swanston St Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria
(Directly opposite the Sidney Myer Asia centre, under Uni Lodge student apartments) Google Maps
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